Machine for making wire-and-wood fencing



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MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE AND WOOD FENCING. No. 369,584. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

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MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE AND WOOD FENCING. No. 369,584. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

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WILLIAM BUNDY, OF OARTHAGE, INDIANA.

MACHINE FOR MAKING WlRE -AND WOOD FENCING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 369,584, dated September 6, 1887.

Application filed March 1, 1886. Serial No. 193,667. (ModeLl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM BUNDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carthage, in the county of Bush and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Wiring Picket Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists of'a machine for wiring pickets, which will be understood by the following description and claims:

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top view of my machine. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the spool with the wire thereon. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the center of a twister. Fig. etis an elevation of the machine taken from the left of Fig. 1. Fig. 5is a detached perspective view of the under side of the spacer and guide.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the frame of the machine. Arranged upon this frame are a series of twisters, B,each consisting of a hollow shaft having a spool-frame, b, and eyes or wire guides 1). Into these frames are inserted a series of spools, 0, Figs. 2, 3, and 4, upon which are wound two coils of wire, one at each end thereof, for the purpose of feeding said wire to the twisters as the machine proceeds to weave in the pickets. The twisters are provided with a series of cranks, 0, connected by means of bar or rod D, which in turn is provided with double cranks E, connected by bar F and hand-crank F, for operating the machine, as will now be explained.

On the front part of the frame is the spacer or picket-gage G, mounted on shaft H, which latter is arranged to rock on its end crank, 71,

by means of the hand-crank h. The pickets are fed into this spacer by hand, and two or three twists of the wire may be given between each two pickets.

A hand-lever, M, within reach of the operator,has a connecting-rod, N, attached thereto for operating the arm L, pawl K, (both pivoted to rod N at P,) and ratchet t, and thus rotating, as desired, the reel-shaft I for winding off the web of pickets or fence as the machine completes the work.

A projecting pin, 1?, extends outward from frame A horizontally, to form a stop for red N.

WVires are stretched from twisters B to roller I, a picket is inserted between the wires under the front of gage G, two or three twists are given the wires close to the picket by revolving the twistersB by the crank and handle F, after which the lever M is thrown up,turning the roller I, drawing the wires and picket toward said roller the desired distance,when another picketis inserted and the operation repeated. 7

IVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The series of twisters 13, having spoolframes 1), eyes or wireguides Z), in combination with the series of spools O, cranks 0, double cranks E,connecting bars D and F,and hand-crank F, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine for wiring picket fence, the spacer or picketgage G, crank -shaft H, in combination with roller 0r reel shaft I, ratchet 6, arm L, pawl K, rod N, and lever M, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WVILLIAM BUNDY.

Witnesses:

DANIEL BREED, O. M. IRELAN. 

